#truly

The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#beings #even #himself #his #man

It is impossible for any number which is a power greater than the second to be written as a sum of two like powers. I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain. ↗

— Pierre de Fermat

#contain #demonstration #greater #i #impossible

I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood. ↗

— Elia Kazan

#believe #corrupts #ever #every #film

I should add that it is open to debate whether what we call the writing of history these days is truly scientific. ↗

— Lion Feuchtwanger

#call #days #debate #history #i

It's so wrong when I pick up a new edition of Huckleberry Finn and I look at the last page and it doesn't say, Yours truly, at the end. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#end #finn #huckleberry #huckleberry finn #i

To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams. ↗

— Giorgio de Chirico

#barriers #become #broken #childhood #common

I don't see any kind of mirror of power, male power, that is, as a form of liberation. I don't believe in an eye for an eye. I don't believe this is truly freedom. ↗

— Sandra Cisneros

#believe #eye #eye for an eye #form #freedom

A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart. ↗

— Henry Fielding

#elegant #excellency #generally #heart #taste

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#beat #begins #fails #finish #first

If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace. ↗

— Hamilton Fish

#dying #let us #living #our #peace